Rumour: PS4 Developers Will Have Access to 7GB GDDR5 RAM

Pull out your favourite salt shaker and prepare to toss a hefty helping all over your keyboard, because the rumourmongers are out in force today. PS4Daily is reporting that developers will have access to 7GB of the PlayStation 4’s total 8GB GDDR5 RAM for games, with the remaining 1GB being reserved for the console’s operating system.

According to Gilray, the original PS4 development kits only featured 4GB GDDR5 RAM, so developers will still end up with more memory than they originally anticipated. “We were told [the PS4] was 4GB," he explained. “When they said 8GB it was like, 'Okay.'"

@charlesnarles: As far as I know, the GPU has no extra Ram for itself but also uses a part of the 8(7) Gigs. But this is still awesome news, because the PS3 has 256MB Ram for the CPU and such and 256MB for the GPU, which made development troublesome or hard sometimes.
The 360 has 512MB of unified Ram that can be divided as needed. That Sony adopts the same strategy for the PS4 is quite awesome, for it means much more flexibility for the developers.

And on the topic: 7 Gigs remaining for games is still awesome...especially if one considers that all PS4 demos up until now were created with the 4Gigs in mind, so minus the Gig for the system they probably ran on 3Gigs.